Whose absence dearer comfort is, by far, Than presences of other women are ''!!

If we sit here reading editorials and looking at public-opinion polls and other reports that cross our desks, we should realize that this is raw, undigested opinion expressed in the absence of leadership.

However, the possible absence of a center of symmetry not only moves the hydrogen atom off Af, but also allows the oxygen atoms to become nonequivalent, with Af at Af and Af at Af ( space group Af ), where Af represents the oxygens on one side of the Af layers and Af those on the other side.

The nightmare of a clash between those in trouble in Africa, exacerbated by the difficulties, changes, and tragedies facing them, and other allies who intellectually and emotionally disapprove of the circumstances that have brought these troubles about, has been conspicuous by its absence.

It is possible that an initially mild attraction to Weightman assumed increasing importance to Anne over time, in the absence of other opportunities for love, marriage, and children.

His mind was entirely absorbed in the labors of his studio, and, with the exception of his journeys to Paris, one to Vienna, and a few short intervals of absence in Florence and other parts of Italy, he never quit Rome.

The burial rites of the Italian Boii show many similarities with contemporary Bohemia, such as inhumation, which was uncommon with the other Cisalpine Gauls, or the absence of the typically western Celtic torcs.

By contrast most of the party's seats were won either due to the absence of a candidate from one of the other parties or in rural areas on the " Celtic fringe ", where local evidence suggests that economic ideas were at best peripheral to the electorate's concerns.

The absence of privacy and anti-discrimination legal protections in most countries can lead to discrimination in employment or insurance or other use of personal genetic information.

Several specific terms categorize directors by the presence or absence of their other relationships to the organization.

This first connotation can be further differentiated into ( a ) pure common law arising from the traditional and inherent authority of courts to define what the law is, even in absence of an underlying statute, e. g., most criminal law and procedural law before the 20th century, and even today, most of contract law and the law of torts, and ( b ) court decisions that interpret and decide the fine boundaries and distinctions in law promulgated by other bodies.

It may also aggravate other types of generalized seizure disorder, particularly absence seizures.

Despite the region's absence of economic growth on the same scale as other parts of the nation, the Maritimes has changed markedly throughout the 20th century, partly as a result of global and national economic trends, and partly as a result of government intervention.

In 1525, Cortés took Cuauhtémoc and several other indigenous nobles on his expedition to Honduras, fearing that Cuauhtémoc could have led an insurrection in his absence.

Another example of centripetal force arises in the helix which is traced out when a charged particle moves in a uniform magnetic field in the absence of other external forces.

In fact, the very existence of the Alphabet plays, or rather the absence of an equivalent edition for Sophocles and Aeschylus, could distort our notions of distinctive Euripidean qualitiesmost of his least ' tragic ' plays are in the Alphabet edition and possibly the other two tragedians would appear just as genre-bending as this " restless experimenter " if we possessed more than their ' select ' editions.

In contrast to other species, E. invadens forms cysts in vitro in the absence of bacteria and is used as a model system to study this aspect of the life cycle.

This is largely due to the complex history of the English language, together with the absence of systematic spelling reforms implemented in English, in contrast to the position in a number of other languages.

In the absence of the VFA team, there was no need for the " Same Olds " distinction and, by 1922, the other nicknames " Sash Wearers " and " Essendonians " that had been variously used from time to time were also abandoned.

Early Western travelers, whether to Persia, Turkey or China frequently remark on the absence of changes in fashion there, and observers from these other cultures comment on the unseemly pace of Western fashion, which many felt suggested an instability and lack of order in Western culture.

The laissez faire principle expresses the preference for an absence of non-market pressures on prices such as those from government taxes, subsidies, tariffs, regulation ( other than protection from coercion and theft ), or government-granted or coercive monopolies.

Beyond that, the viceroy carries out the other conventional parliamentary duties in the sovereign's absence, including reading the Speech from the throne and the proroguing and dissolving of parliament.

The Anglican Articles of Religion hold that only Baptism and the Lord's Supper are to be counted as sacraments of the gospel, and assert that other rites considered to be sacraments by such as the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches were not ordained by Christ and do not have the nature of a sacrament in the absence of any physical matter such as the water in Baptism and the Bread and Wine in the Eucharist.

A new strategy was agreed, whereby the Ottomans were to take advantage of any absence of Averof to attack the other Greek ships.

( Lauri Vaska, E. M. Sloane, J. W. DiLuzio ) In the absence of direct evidence to the contrary, decomposition of solvent alcohol and coordination of its fragments to the metal were not considered, following the above heretofore-accepted assumption in preparative coordination chemistry.

In the case of new evidence, there must be a high probability that its presence or absence would have made a material difference in the trial.

Therefore an affidavit cannot ordinarily be used as evidence in absence of specific order of the Court.

The sentencing court may, of necessity, consider a broad range of information, including the evidence of the crime, the defendant's criminal history and the demeanor of the defendant, including the presence or absence of remorse.

New evidence from Babylon has verified the existence of Belshazzar, the name first given in Daniel 5: 1, as well as his co-regency during the absence of his father, Nabonidus, in Temâ.

In line with the statement that Nabonidus " entrusted the kingship " to Belshazzar in his absence, there is evidence that Belshazzar's name was used with his father's in oath formulas, that he was able to pass edicts, lease farmlands, and receive the " royal privilege " to eat the food offered to the gods.

Indeed, scholars have referred to the presence or absence of such features as one source of evidence for dating the remains.

Following shortly after a sex scandal that had forced Prescott to resign his ministerial responsibilities while retaining his salary and privileges, the incident was portrayed as evidence that Prescott had little real responsibility for running the country during the absence of the Prime Minister.

The kind dealt with is when " to believe something " simply means any cognitive content held as true in spite of the absence of proof or even evidence.

Elizabeth's supporters in the government, including Lord Paget, convinced Mary to spare her sister in the absence of hard evidence against her.

Econometricians often seek illuminating natural experiments in the absence of evidence from controlled experiments.

The scientific community rejects ESP due to the absence of an evidence base, the lack of a theory which would explain ESP, and the lack of experimental techniques which can provide reliably positive results.

However, the absence of any archaeological remains of or documentary evidence for a Roman fort at Hastings suggest that Hæstingaceaster may refer to a different settlement, most likely that based on the Roman remains at Pevensey.

Adenauer was subsequently rearrested ( and so was his wife ), but in the absence of any evidence against him was released from prison at Brauweiler in November 1944.

Both have apparently similar but invalid forms such as affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent, and evidence of absence.

The similarity of some aspects of the game to agricultural activity and the absence of a need for specialized equipment present the intriguing possibility that it could date to the beginnings of civilization itself ; however, there is little verifiable evidence that the game is older than about 1300 years.

Lack of evidence and the absence of any first person historical references has led some to believe that the mass suicide is a myth.

The status of compounds in which the canonical anion has a delocalized structure in which the negative charge is shared with an atom more electronegative than carbon, as in enolates, may vary with the nature of the anionic moiety, the metal ion, and possibly the medium ; in the absence of direct structural evidence for a carbon – metal bond, such compounds are not considered to be organometallic.

: namely, the logically fatal tautology of any theory that " there must have been a conspiracy to suppress the truth of de Vere ’ s authorship " just because " the very absence of surviving evidence proves the case.

In the United Kingdom, in the absence of evidence being led, the foreign law is presumed to be the same as the lex fori.

In the absence of a family history of ADPKD, the presence of bilateral renal enlargement and cysts, with or without the presence of hepatic cysts, and the absence of other manifestations suggestive of a different renal cystic disease provide presumptive, but not definite, evidence for the diagnosis.

For example, the absence of the tuple (' John ', ' Spanish ') from a table of language skills cannot necessarily be taken as evidence that John does not speak Spanish.